It would appear that on Jun 14, David L. Johnson did say:
> On 06/14/2011 11:52 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
>
> > I may be a bit too dependent on
> > the various package management systems on my installed distros but
> > most of the time this saves me a lot of dependency headaches.
>
> I don't think I would fault anyone for being dependent upon package management
> systems on a distro. I've been using debian since -- I have no idea how long
> --- and have found that the package management is now very, very good (it
> wasn't so smart at first), and it is very difficult to avoid difficulties if
> you oppose its wishes.
>
> I am also using 2.0.0, under debian testing (wheezy).
>
> > The shortcut issues I'm having are:
> >
> > 1) The Alt+D on the "Add" button conflicts with the "Document" pull
> > down menu. To actually add the word to the word list I MUST click on the
> > button with the mouse.
> >
> > 2) The Alt+I on the "Ignore" button conflicts with the "Insert" pull
> > down menu.
> > Again I MUST click...
> >
> > 3) The Alt+F on the "Find next" button conflicts with the "File" pull
> > down menu.
> > Again I MUST click...
>
> I see these phenomena as well (I use gnome, but it seems that this is an issue
> about LyX that is independent of the window-manager).
I'll by that, I'm using E17...
> If you just right-click on the misspelled word when using continuous
> spellchecking (something I thought I would never do, but I do like it now),
> you do not get those keyboard shortcuts at all.
That's something I know I wouldn't learn to like. Not only do my fingers
quickly go numb when I start using the mouse a lot, But I sometimes have
difficulty controlling it accurately. I do a little better with my trackball
than a traditional mouse but as a control interface it still gives me much
aggravation.
Aside from which I would NOT want full time spellchecking. Anything that
instantly tells me a word is misspelled (even those stupid squiggly
underlines like they use in some word processors and web browsers, are
enough to make me lose track of the creative thought process when I'm
typing new content...
> Maybe they need to be removed from the spellchecker window,
{whimper} If they remove them nobody will ever fix them and I don't wanna
be stuck with the mouse.
> or changed to avoid the conflicts.
Now that's the ticket. But to avoid the conflict with Documents, the Add
button would have to either need to use a character NOT in it's label or
give it the Alt+A shortcut, which would mean the "Replace All" button
couldn't use the "A" anymore. And so on... A better solution would be
perhaps to force the focus to switch to the spell checker window when F7 is
pressed, and keep it there until (the escape key is pressed, the spell
checker window is closed, or a mouse click is made within the main window.
> This may also depend upon how you set up your LyX shortcuts. I use cua with a
> few additions (not conflicting with these commands).
Could you tell me how to add one to close the spellchecker. The sidebar
doesn't disappear upon the escape key any more. And while I can't remember
if undocking it so that it's once again a floating box that hides part of
the context goes away upon the esc key. But I surely noticed that undocking
it from being a sidebar stops the questionable words from getting
highlighted...
> One thing to note is that, if the spellchecker window has the focus, you can
> use the shortcuts. But typically the focus would be on the main window, and
> since that gets the focus the shortcuts would go to its menu. So you have to
> use the mouse, no matter what, at least to shift the input focus to the
> spellchecker window.
{whimper}
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